What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
Fifth-generation family-owned Yorkshire bedmaker, Harrison Spinks, has joined the Wild Ingleborough programme to help restore and maintain nature across the region. As part of the long-term commitment, the Beeston-based luxury bedmaker, will focus its substantial five-figure investment on high-quality climate work, which includes natural regeneration and restoration of land around
Playing fields off Old Run Road in Belle Isle is set be transformed by the planting of 13,000 trees. Planting starts on Saturday (2 December 2017) with a community planting day from 10am-2pm. The project is a partnership between Trees For Cities and Leeds City Council and is being funded
Get lucky this Friday (13 October 2017), and join local award-winning conservation centre Skelton Grange for an Autumn Festival featuring harvest-themed crafts, activities, and games. The event will especially feature a range of apple-themed activities, for everyone to get involved in: picking, pressing (juicing), and making (and eating) apple based
Green-fingered South Leeds groups this week won a raft of honours at the annual Yorkshire in Bloom awards. Volunteers from the projects along with staff members from the Council’s Parks and Countryside team attended a glitzy event at York Race Course, to discover what the judges made of their year-round
Children and volunteers at Skelton Grange Environment Centre are looking forward to a newt-iful summer thanks to the construction of a fantastic new pond dipping area at the centre. The centre piece is a new dipping platform that allows 10 or more children to safely investigate what creatures might be
Summer’s here. It’s time to get outside. The children have been making the most of Skelton Grange Environment Centre over the past few weeks. Below is a list of volunteering events which have been organised to keep in tip-top shape for the little visitors. Can you help out?